Using the clinical chemistry score in the emergency department to detect adverse cardiac events: a diagnostic accuracy study.

ABSTRACT:

Background

The ability to rule out or in a major adverse cardiac event (MACE) in patients with suspected acute coronary syndrome at emergency department (ED) presentation would be beneficial to patient care and the health care system. The clinical chemistry score (CCS) was evaluated in this context.

Methods

This diagnostic accuracy study evaluated 2 different ED cohorts with suspected acute coronary syndrome. For patients in cohort 1, who presented to the ED of 3 hospitals in Hamilton, Ontario, between May and August 2013, retrospective measurements were taken using the Ortho Clinical Diagnostics high-sensitivity cardiac troponin I (hs-cTnI) assay; for patients in cohort 2, who presented to the ED of the same 3 hospitals in Hamilton between November 2012 and February 2013, a

SUBMITTER: Kavsak PA 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7608943 | biostudies-literature | 2020 Oct-Dec

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature